1. Eric Gandt 525 S 13th
st New Hyde Park NY 11040
Cell Phone: 1(516)690-7517 · E-mail: eric@gandt.org
Current Title:
Consulting Member Technical Staff (QA Analyst 5-ProdDev)
Objective:
An Engineering/QA position utilizing my experience to improve performance and stability of Web enabled
applications.
Employment Target:
A company, interested in improving their Quality Assurance methodology as it relates to a Web presence.
Work Experience:
Company Name: Oracle Corporation
Company Location: Mineola, New York
Formal Title: Consulting Member Technical Staff
Employment Interval: 9/01/2011 - Present
Work Performed:
Load testing of Enterprise On-premise and Cloud software used to create enterprise WebSites
including: WebCenter Site, Sites Cloud Server, Document Cloud Service, and Oracle’s CaaS
offering. Load testing related tasks included designing load scenarios based off Product
Management and client input, implementing scenarios, assisting Engineering in debugging issues,
documenting results, and generating material for the Sales team related to performance. Wrote the
White paper for Oracle WebCenter Sites on Oracle Exalogic.
Automation of both performance and sanity tests for Enterprise On-premise products, using a
combination of Jenkins and shell scripts. Automation included installation, execution and reporting
of results. Wrote and automated nightly Performance tests for Oracle’s CaaS API.
Created the standalone product known as the “JumpstartKit”, with support for Windows, OS X,
and Unix. The JumpstartKit is utilized by Sales, development and clients to test and develop on-
premise products without requiring an installation.
Created, managed and executed manual/automated functional test plans, mostly related to non-
GUI functionality such a APIs.
Managed a performance and automation lab of over eighty servers, consisting of Linux,
Windows, Solaris and AIX systems.
Worked with the Support team on escalations related to installation and configuration issues.
Worked with engineering as needed to reproduce and resolve client issues, reported by support.
Worked closely with the Documentation team writing source docs covering installation and
configuration of the software, Oracle’s as well as third party.
Company Name: Fatwire Software
Company Location: Mineola, New York
Formal Title: Lead Systems Engineer
Employment Interval: 1/22/2005 - 9/01/2011
Work Performed:
Managed Engineering and QA lab of over one hundred Physical and Virtual servers, running
Linux, Windows, HP-UX, AIX and Solaris. Virtualization included VMware ESXi, Solaris Zones
and AIX LPARs.
Managed a Performance team of between two and four members, testing Fatwire ContentServer,
Fatwire Community Gadgets and Fatwire Spark Portal. Worked in tandem with Engineering to find
and resolve performance issues and generate a performance calculator for the sales team. Ran a
number of sizing exercises for clients running Fatwire ContentServer.
Wrote and managed functional test plans in TestLink, executed manual test plans as needed.
Responsible to sign off on all platform certifications.
Responsible for source documents related to installation and configuration of the software,
worked with Documentation team on delivering quality readable documentation.
Worked with Support on client issues related to installation and configuration, including on-site

2. Eric Gandt 525 S 13th
st New Hyde Park NY 11040
Cell Phone: 1(516)690-7517 · E-mail: eric@gandt.org
visits as required.
Secondary System Administrator for the Fatwire corporate network and production sites.
Company Name: Columbia House
Company Location: New York, New York
Formal Title: Senior QA Engineer
Employment Interval: 10/20/2003 – 4/23/2004
Work Performed: Performance testing of the Columbia house website.
Company Name: USinternetworking Inc.
Company Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Formal Title: Senior Performance Engineer
Employment Interval: 12/27/1999 - 5/15/2003
Work Performed: Performance engineering and testing of client Web Sites, Automation of tasks
during work force reductions in Perl.
Company Name: Digex
Company Location: Beltsville, Maryland
Formal Title: Senior Operations Center Technician
Employment Interval: 3/19/1999-12/15/1999
Work Performed: Operation Center tech, level two support of Unix and Windows.
Company Name: NOAA, Hydrological Research Laboratory
Company Location: Silver Springs, Maryland
Formal Title: Systems Administrator
Employment Interval: 5/19/1996-3/16/1999
Work Performed: System Administration of HP-UX system, wrote software for monitoring
Salmon spawning.
Formal Education:
School: University of Maryland at College Park
Location: College Park Maryland
Date of attendance: 9/1994-7/1999
Major: Computer Science
Skills:
Load Testing: Micro Focus LoadRunner, Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS), Apache
Jmeter, Neotys Neoload, RadView WebLOAD
Productivity: MS Office, LibreOffice, Jenkins, Jira, SiteScope, Git, Ant, Apache SubVersion,
TestLink, Kafka, Apache MQ
Web Servers: IIS, Apache HTTP Server, Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle Traffic Director,
IBM HTTP Server
Application Servers: Oracle WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere
On-premise
Applications:
Fatwire ContentServer, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle WebCenter Content,
Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Endeca Server, Fatwire
Community Gadgets
Cloud Applications: Oracle Sites Cloud, Oracle Document Cloud, Oracle’s CaaS
Cloud Platforms: Oracle IAAS, Oracle JCS, Amazon AWS
Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MYSQL, IBM DB2
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris
Virtualization: VMware ESX, Oracle VM, Oracle Virtualbox, Docker, Solaris Zones
Languages C/C++, Perl, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Python, Bash